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A top ten bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of and the atmospheric suspense of : a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town.New York TimesAmerican DirtWhere the Crawdads Sing

‘The very definition of a stunning debut’ Ann Patchett

‘Brilliant, sharp, tightly wound, and devastating’ Elizabeth Gilbert‘Quite simply one of the best books I’ve ever read’ Jeanine Cummins,author ofAmerican Dirt

Mercy is hard in a place like this. I wished him dead before I ever saw his face…

In a place like Odessa, Texas choosing who to trust can be a dangerous game.

Mary Rose Whitehead isn’t looking for trouble – but when it shows up at her front door, she finds she can’t turn away.

Corinne Shepherd, newly widowed, wants nothing more than to mind her own business, and for everyone else to mind theirs. But when the town she has spent years rebelling against closes ranks she realises she is going to have to take a side.

Gloria Ramírez, fourteen years old and out of her depth, survives the brutality of one man only to face the indifference and prejudices of many.

When justice is as slippery as oil, and kindness becomes a hazardous act, sometimes courage is all we have to keep us alive.


Author:

  • Elizabeth Wetmore

Narrators:

  • Cassandra Campbell
  • Jenna Lamia

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 10 h 21 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Suspense
  • Political novels

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    Elizabeth Wetmore

    Elizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Baltimore Review, Crab Orchard Review, Iowa Review, and other literary journals. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. She was also a Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and one of six Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook. A native of West Texas, she lives and works in Chicago.

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